You do realize that software voltage monitoring is not very accurate hence the reason high end motherboards have voltage test points now.
That amount of voltage drop has no impact whatsoever except in extreme circumstances ie LN2 world record attempts.

I say its fine my 12v and 5v have always fluctuated ± .100v~.200v since the day i got this PSU 4 years ago.

ATX spec says all rails must be between +/- 5% of their rated values. That means 12v can't be less than 11.40v or greater than 12.60v, 5v can't be less than 4.75v or greater than 5.25v, and 3.3v can't be less than 3.18v or greater than 3.46v.

Your "deviation" is less than 1%. Your worries are pretty much pointless considering you're using the motherboard's sensors to measure voltage and you don't have an oscilloscope to measure the waveforms of the DC output. Being worried about this is like being worried that a Sandy Bridge CPU is going to prematurely fail because the base clock is running at 99.8MHz instead of 100.0MHz.

If anything, the deviation in your home's AC line voltage would probably scare you if you're concerned about your PSU's rails being a fraction of a percent under perfect voltages that you aren't measuring with professional equipment.

I'm just stating the obvious differance noted after getting a "Gold" vs old ATX2.2 PSU

I expected more I guess, I mean I got a High-End PSU, you would think it would at least keep the "stated" voltages better than an old unit?!?!?!?!?!?!

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The more likely case then the old psu being better is that it was actually worse, and by that i mean it was less capable of regulating the voltage and was actually feeding your board more power then it needed.

Throwing the software not being accurate argument off the table, the voltage loss that you are seeing is such a small amount that the only way to truly see if the new one is "worse" then the old one would be to bust out a scope and test them both.

Also if you want to run a stress test that will use more power then any game try OCCT's psu test on infinite,DX9 1024x768 64bit and use all logical cores, if you see major swings in voltages or errors there then your Concern/RMA may be justified.

well you can keep it as it is not much different, but you can also RMA it and just pay the 15% restocking fee or so depending on where you are and which shop or something if nothings wrong is found, but imo this is an interesting subject always wanted to open up a psu.

I didnt see in any of the reviews having this kind of shit, or for that matter really none of the Silver & Gold PSU's doing this crap so YEA it makes me want to find out why my money was spent to get something to just "move along"

So every one in this thread has a PSU that drops under 12v,when Gaming with a 5870 or eqv. and wont even output 5v ?

As in my #6 post I wasnt clear if the design of these newer PSU make them "seem" that they are putting out less power

In The reviews, even jhonnyguru's they all have higher 12v&5v readings at full and low power, which made me nervious when mine was off.

Any higher psu as the 1Kw dont behave the same so thats not a comparision.

My multimeter was destroyed in the passenger door so I gotta get another after we get the truck back and i'm up to getting out more. Just again eairlier this mo. we got rear ended in my wifes car on the way to my Dr. just not having too good of luck. [Makes me wonder If I finish the Firebird if I should even drive it lol]

It's not really the software, it's the chip measuring the voltages that can be the problem. Considering the expensive Vernier scientific computer interfaces that I used in my college physics class has up to +/- 3% error range, how is the $1-2 chip on your motherboard supposed to give precision results? I bet it's not even calibrated to measure precise voltages. Plus, anything on your motherboard is subject to vdroop because of limited power inputs, trace lengths and resistances, load on the limited inputs, and probably even varying trace resistance due to board heat.

You're overthinking this too much. Measure the voltage out of your wall and gripe at the power company for giving you 118.2v instead of 120.0v. We've all told you this is not a problem. Any man made object is different and falls within a certain % tolerance that determines whether the product is correctly manufactured or defective.

As in my #6 post I wasnt clear if the design of these newer PSU make them "seem" that they are putting out less power

In The reviews, even jhonnyguru's they all have higher 12v&5v readings at full and low power, which made me nervious when mine was off.

Any higher psu as the 1Kw dont behave the same so thats not a comparision.

My multimeter was destroyed in the passenger door so I gotta get another after we get the truck back and i'm up to getting out more. Just again eairlier this mo. we got rear ended in my wifes car on the way to my Dr. just not having too good of luck. [Makes me wonder If I finish the Firebird if I should even drive it lol]

ATX SPEC are +/- 5%, like others said. You can have a less than 3.3v, 5v or 12v, like you can get more... By the way, software reading can be Wrong. I've tested a Sirtec HighPower 560w, old of 5 years of my brother.. Software and bios says 11.4v, but when plugged into my PSU tester, the 12v1 and v2 are at 12.1 at idle....

My multimeter was destroyed in the passenger door so I gotta get another after we get the truck back and i'm up to getting out more. Just again eairlier this mo. we got rear ended in my wifes car on the way to my Dr. just not having too good of luck. [Makes me wonder If I finish the Firebird if I should even drive it lol]